![]() ![]() Most small to medium businesses get the most benefit out of something in between – it needs to be comprehensive enough to fit your requirements, but not so complex that your team can’t figure out how to use it. On the flip-side, I’ve also seen even more examples of it done wrong – and the negative impact it can have on both team and business! There are so many tools out there that are designed to help boost productivity, from super basic “to-do” list software to integrated, customised software developed specifically for your business. In the past ten years, I have been exposed to some fantastic examples of team collaboration and project management. So this is the 2019 update of this original post for your reading pleasure! What is a Productivity Tool? ![]() I was re-reading it earlier this week and decided it was time for an update, because there are some new kids on the block and some changes that should probably be mentioned. Right now, it’s a pretty nifty product with a lot of potential.A couple of years ago I wrote a post about productivity apps (project management, collaboration etc.) that I have used as I was getting asked about them a lot by our clients. We want people working in marketing, support, sales, education and non-profit to use Azendoo,” Lefort said. “We don’t want to create a service for other tech startups. If an integration is not seamless and thorough, it’s not good enough. Some integrations aren’t as effective as the Evernote one, but the company will improve existing integrations to make it work better. The startup now has 240,000 users, including people working for Nike and Coca-Cola, people studying at Stanford and more. The team quickly realized that it was more interesting to become the central puzzle piece that holds everything together and removes pain points rather than to convince potential users that they should switch to another service to store their to-do data and documents.Īzendoo currently integrates with Evernote, Box, Dropbox, Google and Skype. But it wasn’t very effective because users already had a Box account, an Evernote account, etc. At the very beginning, Azendoo competed directly with existing to-do apps. “We provide a cross-platform service that syncs all your data.”Ĭurrently, most people use multiple to-do list platforms, such as personal apps like Evernote and Wunderlist, professional services like Asana and Producteev, and even emails and post-it notes. “Azendoo is much more than a shared to-do list,” co-founder and CEO Grégory Lefort told me in a phone interview. Similarly, Google Drive, Box and Dropbox users can collaborate on the same document - Azendoo will sync the file between these services. The startup recently won an Evernote Platform Award. In other words, Azendoo is able to turbocharge Evernote with task collaboration. Whenever you mark the task as done in Evernote, Azendoo will reflect the change on its platform. Your coworker can assign a task to you in Azendoo, and the service will seamlessly add it to your Evernote account. Let’s say you use Evernote for your to-do lists. The French startup took another approach to task and document management by focusing on third-party integrations. Azendoo is not yet another task manager - it’s the glue that brings together all the services that you already use. ![]()
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